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1. The Bay of Baiæ, Apollo and the Sibyl

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Abiel Prior, 1809–1886
Date:: 1873
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 1/4 × 39 7/8 inches (69.2 × 101.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Golden Bough

Creator:: Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863
Date:: 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; first published state on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 3/8 × 32 7/8 inches (67 × 83.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Golden Bough

Creator:: Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863
Date:: 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Etching; open etched state on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/8 × 26 1/2 inches (41 × 67.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Horse Race at Rome During the Carnival

Creator:: Thomas Sandby, 1721–1798
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 3/8 x 22 5/16 inches (39.1 x 56.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Thermae of Caracalla

Creator:: Print made by Sir David Young Cameron, 1865–1945
Date:: 1923
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

6. Evening in Italy

Creator:: attributed to W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Bay of Baiae - Apollo and the Sibyl

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1852 and 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Chromolithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches (36.8 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Cavalry Crossing the Piave

Creator:: Print made by Martin Hardie, 1875–1952
Date:: 1918
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 18 3/8 inches (28.6 × 46.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

9. A Regatta on the Grand

Creator:: Print made by James McBey, 1883–1959
Date:: 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 18 inches (31.8 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

10. "Curtius Leaping into the Gulph"

Creator:: George Dance, 1741–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2in. (19.1 x 24.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. The Ruins of Nervesa

Creator:: Print made by Martin Hardie, 1875–1952
Date:: 1918
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 8 5/8 inches (31.8 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Daniel Bell

12. Nursemaids on the Piazza, Venice

Creator:: Sir William Russell Flint, 1880–1969
Date:: 1929
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 11/16 x 17 13/16 inches (32.2 x 45.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

13. Via dei Girolami, Florence

Creator:: Hedley Fitton, 1859–1929
Date:: 1891
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 16 3/4 inches (36.9 x 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

14. Villa d'Este: Evening

Creator:: George Percival Gaskell, 1868–1934
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 x 10 13/16 inches (44.5 x 27.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

15. The Lonely Tower, Roman Campagna

Creator:: George Percival Gaskell, 1868–1934
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 19 7/8 inches (33.7 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

16. Title page of Piante e Alzate di Diverse Fabbriche

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: graphite, pen and brown ink
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/16 x 8 7/8 inches (33.8 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Juliet House

Creator:: Hedley Fitton, 1859–1929
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches (48 x 33.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

18. Study of Pines, Villa Borghese, Rome, 1871

Creator:: Walter Crane, 1845–1915
Date:: 1871
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 14 inches (25.4 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Schaff, Yale BA 1965

19. Castle of Ischia

Creator:: Print made by James Gandon, 1742–1823
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. In the Strada Nomentana

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. In the Villa Adriana

Creator:: Print made by Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Bridge of Augustus at Rimini

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. La facciata d'una Casa per fare alla Campagna

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, pen and black and brown ink, within double-ruled black ink border on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 13 3/8 inches (22.5 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Alzata della faciata d'una Casa per fare alla Villa

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash, pen and black and brown ink, within double-ruled black ink border on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 13 3/8 inches (22.5 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Facciata duna Casa per fare alla Campagna

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black and brown ink, gray wash, within double-ruled black ink border on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 8 7/8 inches (34 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Il diritto della Facciata d'una Casa per fare alla Campagna

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black, brown, and gray ink, brown and gray wash, within double-ruled black ink border on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 13 3/8 inches (22.5 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Alzata di'una faciata d'un Palazzo di 15 finestre per fare in luogo nobile della citta

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black, brown, and gray ink, brown and gray wash, within single-ruled black ink border on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 13 3/8 inches (22.5 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Alzata della Facciata d'una Chiesa

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black, brown, and gray ink, brown and gray wash on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 8 7/8 inches (34 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Rough Elevation of a Domed Church

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, gray wash on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 8 7/8 inches (34 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Temple of Romulus and Remus

Creator:: Print made by James Gandon, 1742–1823
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Villa of Mæcenus at Tivoli

Creator:: Print made by Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. La Prigioni a Venezia

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black, brown, and gray ink, brown and gray wash, within double-ruled black ink border on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 13 3/8 inches (22.5 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Upper half of a plan

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, gray wash, within double-ruled black ink border on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 7/8 inches (16.5 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Arco nel Campo Marzo a Vicenza

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black, brown, and gray ink, brown and gray wash, within double-ruled black ink border on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 8 7/8 inches (34 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Alzata d'una Porta congli Prigioni della Citta

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, pen and black and brown ink on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 8 7/8 inches (34 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Alzata d'una Facciata di Chesa con il campanile a l'uro Veneto

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 8 7/8 inches (34 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Temple of Peace

Creator:: Print made by Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Circus of Caracalla

Creator:: Print made by Edward Rooker, 1724–1774
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Baths of Dioclesian

Creator:: Print made by James Gandon, 1742–1823
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Banks of the Tiber

Creator:: Print made by James Gandon, 1742–1823
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Torre Delle Grotte near Naples

Creator:: Print made by William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Pompey's Bridge at Terni

Creator:: Print made by James Gandon, 1742–1823
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Journal and notebook kept during a tour through France and Italy in 1773.

Creator:: Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 1 volume (approximately 42 leaves) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Illustrated excursions in Italy / by Edward Lear.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: MDCCCXLVI [1846]
Physical Description:: xii, 144 pages, [1], 30 leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

45. Grand Tour diary of an Irish woman.

Date:: 1841, September 11-1842, April 7
Physical Description:: 1 v. (253, [1] p.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy : states of Sardinia, Lombardy and Venice, Parma and Piacenza, Modena, Lucca, Massa-Carrara, and Tuscany, as far as the Val d'Arno.

Creator:: John Murray (Firm)
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: xxx, 607, [24] p. : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Album.

Creator:: Cockburn, James Pattison, 1779–1847
Date:: 1823-1825
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([226] p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The story of the Venetian villas [filmstrip] / Compiled, annotated and photographed by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Shirley Smith, Richard
Date:: c1973
Physical Description:: 4 rolls (36 fr. each) : col. ; 35 mm. + 4 scripts and teacher's guide.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

49. Piante elevazioni profili e spaccati degli edifici della villa suburbana di Giulio III : Pontefico Massimo fuori la Porta Flaminia / misurati e delineati da Giovanni Stern, architetto romano.

Creator:: Stern, Giovanni, 1734–1794 or 1795
Date:: MDCCLXXXIIII [1784]
Physical Description:: 115 [i.e. 55], [1] pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 79 x 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Lido / etchings Tom Hammick ; poems Maureen Duffy.

Creator:: Hammick, Tom
Date:: 1998
Physical Description:: [50] p. : ill. ; 29 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Diary of my tour in Italy in October 1892 / J.S. Maber.

Creator:: Maber, John Stroud, 1836–1899
Date:: 1892, October 3-1896, April 24
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([230] p.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Sketchbooks of tours in Italy / 1792, July 21-1793, April 12.

Creator:: Swinburne, Edward, 1765–1847
Date:: 1792, July 21-1793, April 12
Physical Description:: 5 volumes ; 20 x 13 cm, or smaller
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The mountains and the lakes : sketches in Switzerland, the Tyrol and Italy / by George E. Hering.

Creator:: Hering, G. (George), 1805–1879
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: [20] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 49 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A picturesque tour of Italy : from drawings made in 1816-1817 / by James Hakewill, archt.

Creator:: Hakewill, James, 1778–1843
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [98] pages, [63] leaves of plates : illlustrations ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Drawings of French, Italian, and English churches.

Date:: 1851-1859
Physical Description:: 1 volume : ill ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Essays towards the history of painting / by Mrs. Callcott.

Creator:: Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785–1842
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: [4], iv, [2], 269, [3] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Ten mezzo-tinto engravings : from original drawings ... / by Her Majesty's dutiful, grateful & affectionate servant, Carolina Courtenay Boyle ; engraved by Louis Marvy.

Creator:: Boyle, Carolina Courtenay, 1803–1883
Date:: [circa 1849?]
Physical Description:: 1 portfolio (10 prints) ; sheets 31 x 44 cm, in portfolio 31 x 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 46, [66] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

59. Extracts from a journal of a pilgrimage in search of the curious and beautiful in Italy, Sicily, and Greece during the years 1845-46.

Creator:: Barrington, Richard
Date:: 1850
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 201, [3] pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The prettiest love letters in the world : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo 1503 to 1519 / translation and preface Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Date:: [2001]
Physical Description:: 46, [66] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

61. Wyld's military map of the theatre of war.

Creator:: Wyld, James, 1812–1887
Date:: [1859?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : color ; 52 x 82 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Grand tour diary of Miss Forbes.

Creator:: Forbes, Miss
Date:: 1780-1781
Physical Description:: 1 v. (115 leaves, with blanks) ; 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Li giardini di Roma / disegnate da Giovanni Battista Falda.

Creator:: Falda, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1640–1678
Date:: [1685?]
Physical Description:: 19 prints in 1 volume : etching and engraving ; plate marks 32 x 43 cm, or smaller, on sheets 37 x 46 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disegno : ricercata non solo su gl'ossi e muscoli del corpo humano, ma dimostrata ancora su le statue antiche più insigni di Roma, delineata in piu tauole con tutte le figure in varie faccie e vedute per istudio della Regia academia di Francia pittura e scultura / sotto la direzzione di Carlo Errard, gia direttore di essa in Roma ; preparata su'i cadaueri dal dottor Bernardino Genga ... con le spiegazioni et indice del sigr. canonico Gio. Maria Lancisi ...

Creator:: Genga, Bernardino, 1620–1690
Date:: il dì XV. settembre M. DC. XCI [1691]
Physical Description:: 56 leaves : illustrations ; 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. [Book of ruins].

Creator:: Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:: [ca. 1745?]
Physical Description:: 6 prints : etchings ; plate mark 11 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Contemporary Venetian artists : an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, drawings and mosaics : 30 May-30 June, 1956.

Date:: [1956]
Physical Description:: 20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Incipit ordo missalis s[ecundu]m co[n]suetudinem Romane curie. D[omi]nica prima de aduentu ...

Creator:: Catholic Church
Date:: [13 August 1491]
Physical Description:: [6], CCXLI, [1] leaves : 1 illustration, music ; 40 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti perugini / scritta, e dedicate alla maesta di Carlo Emanuel re di Sardegna da Lione Pascoli.

Creator:: Pascoli, Lione, 1674–1744
Date:: MDCCXXXII [1732]
Physical Description:: [12], 259, [9] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Specimens of architecture, Grecian & Gothic.

Date:: circa 1830
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([13] leaves) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Travelling memorandum book, 1827.

Creator:: Kilmorey, Francis Jack Needham, Earl of, 1787–1880
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: 1 volume (30 leaves) ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. North & central Italy and the island of Corsica / [cartographic material] / by Keith Johnston.

Creator:: Johnston, Keith, 1844–1879
Date:: [1863?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : col. ; 43 x 57 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Solenne processione vaticana del Corpus Domini : diretta da uno de' cerimonieri di Sua Santità Gregorio XVI ...

Creator:: Busuttil, Salvatore
Date:: [1839?]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [1], 33 leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 x 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Handbook for travellers in northern Italy : states of Sardinia, Lombardy and Venice, Parma and Piacenza, Modena, Lucca, Massa-Carrara, and Tuscany as far as the Val d'Arno : with travelling map and plans.

Creator:: John Murray (Firm)
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: xxxii, 608, [24] p., [3] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Diary of Cecil John Shepherd on a tour in France and Italy.

Creator:: Shepherd, Cecil John, 1839 or 1840–1911
Date:: 1864
Physical Description:: 1 volume (16 pages) ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Fifteenth century Italian ornament : chiefly taken from brocades and stuffs found in pictures in the National Gallery, London / by Sydney Vacher ...

Creator:: Vacher, Sydney
Date:: MDCCCLXXXVI [1886]
Physical Description:: [6], 5, [3] pages, [1], 30 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 53 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas R. Burns, Yale BA 2013

76. Italy sketchbook.

Creator:: Bodenham, Elizabeth Mary
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: 42 drawings in 1 sketchbook ; 22 x 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. [Collection of engravings after paintings by Gaspard Poussin, Lorrain, Rosa, Lauro, Courtois, and Rembrandt] [graphic].

Date:: 1741-1746
Physical Description:: 44 prints in 1 volume : engravings ; binding 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. American notes : Pictures from Italy : A child's history of England : The life of our Lord.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: xxii, 891, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Altaria et sacella varia templorum Romae : a celeberrimis quondam architectis structa, quibus sistuntur singulorum orthographia exterior scenographia, ichnographia cum additis ubique mensuris.

Creator:: Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606–1688
Date:: [approximately 1690]
Physical Description:: [80] leaves : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Diary of a European tour.

Date:: 1850, June 20-August 30
Physical Description:: 1 v. (93 leaves) ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Der Italienische Wiegendruck in Original-Typenbeispielen : 120 Inkunabelproben / beschrieben von Konrad Haebler.

Creator:: Haebler, Konrad, 1857–1946
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: 71 p. : ill. ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Grand Tour diaries of John and Richard Wilson.

Creator:: Wilson, John, 1808–1891
Date:: 1830-1846
Physical Description:: 7 volumes ; 16-24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Illustriorum Italiae urbium tabulae : cum appendice celebriorum in maris Mediterranei insulis ciuitatum.

Creator:: Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
Date:: [1657]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (300 pages in various pagings, [6] leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 50 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Dises werck ynnhaltende die heyligen reyssen gen Jherusalem zů dem heiligen grab vnd furbass zů der hochgelobten jungfrauwen vnd mertreryn sant Katheryn.

Creator:: Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440–1497
Date:: ym jar vnsers heylss tusent vierhu[n]dert vn[d] lxxxvj. yn dem .xxj. tag dess Brachmonedts. [21 June 1486]
Physical Description:: [360] pages : illustrations, maps (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (Folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. [Biblical playing cards].

Creator:: Visentini, Antonio, 1688–1782
Date:: [1748]
Physical Description:: 52 cards : etching ; 100 x 55 mm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Sexta Europe tabula.

Creator:: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:: [1486]
Physical Description:: 1 map : woodcut ; 34 x 54 cm, on sheet 41 x 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. One window / Patrick Procktor.

Creator:: Procktor, Patrick, 1936–2003
Date:: 1974
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([32] panels) : all illustrations ; 320 x 15 cm, folded to 10 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

88. The journal of John Palmer, Esqr., during a voyage through France, Italy, and Switzerland, in 1818, '19, '20.

Creator:: Palmer, John, 1794–1852
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 1 volume (278 pages) : illustrations ; 71 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Anne Fletcher diary, 1844-1855.

Creator:: Fletcher, Anne, 1814–1857
Date:: 1844-1855
Physical Description:: 1 volume (88 pages, some blank) ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Examples of the architecture of Venice : selected and drawn to measurement from the edifices.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1904?
Physical Description:: 1 v. (94 leaves) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Photograph album of scenes in Rome.

Creator:: Macpherson, Robert, 1815 or 1816–1872
Date:: circa 1865?
Physical Description:: 59 photographic prints in 1 album : albumen prints, from wet collodion negatives ; 33 x 41 cm or smaller, in volume 48 x 64 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Footsteps of Our Lord and His apostles in Syria, Greece, and Italy : a succession of visits to the scenes of New Testament narrative / by W.H. Bartlett ...

Creator:: Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), 1809–1854
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: 4, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Letters from Italy, describing the customs and manners of that country in the years 1765, and 1766. To which is annexed, an admonition to gentlemen who pass the Alps, in their tour through Italy. By Samuel Sharp, esq.

Creator:: Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778
Date:: [1767]
Physical Description:: iv, 315 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Treatise on artillery.

Creator:: Falconetto, Gio. Batta
Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: 1 volume (66 pages) : drawings ; 12 x 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. A catalogue of a most valuable collection of prints, books of prints, drawings, and antiquities : late the property of John Strange, Esq. LL.D. F.R. and F.A.S. deceased, formerly British Resident at Venice : the prints comprise an extensive assemblage of V. Den Enden, and other fine impressions of the works of Ruben's, Bolswert, Galle, Pontius, Vischer, Soutman, Poilly, Roussellet, Daulle, Bloemart, Edelink, Spiere, Carracci, M. Antonio, A. Durer : Italian and Dutch etchings : views, &c. by Hollar : modern proofs by Bartolozzi, Strange, &c. : a most capital set of Swiss views by Aberli : drawings by Guardi, &c. : valuable books of prints and antiquities : a capital set of Hogarth's works, &c. &c. &c. : the antiquities consist of bustos, vases, bas reliefs, bronzes, gems, coins, medals, curious carvings in ivory and wood, Raphael's Ware, &c. &c. : which (by order of the executors, and pursuant to the directions of the will of the late John Strange, Esq.) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, on the premises, on Wednesday, March 19, 1800, and four following days, (Sunday excepted), at twelve o'clock : may be viewed five days preceding the sale, when catalogues may be had (at one shilling and sixpence each) to be returned to purchasers.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 28 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Diary of Emily Hutchings kept during a tour of the Mediterranean.

Creator:: Hutchings, Emily
Date:: 1881 January 22-1881 May 28
Physical Description:: 1 v. (171 p.) : ill. ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Diary of John Henry Forrest.

Creator:: Forrest, John Henry, 1816–1901
Date:: 1841 October 10-1842 June 11
Physical Description:: 1 volume (209 pages) ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The schools of painting in Italy : translated, from the German of Kugler, by a Lady / edited, with notes, by Sir Charles L. Eastlake, P.R.A., F.R.S. ; with upwards of one hundred illlustrations, drawn on wood, by George Scharf, Jun., from the works of the old masters mentioned in this book ; engraved by John Thompson and Samuel Williams.

Creator:: Kugler, Franz, 1808–1858
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Pictor ignotus, Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto / by Robert Browning.

Creator:: Browning, Robert, 1812–1889
Date:: MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:: [4], 9-39, [3] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Notes on architecture, from a tour of France and Italy.

Creator:: Poynter, Ambrose, 1796–1886
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 1 volume (98 pages) : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. The Bay of Baiæ, Apollo and the Sibyl

2. The Golden Bough

3. The Golden Bough

4. The Horse Race at Rome During the Carnival

5. Thermae of Caracalla

6. Evening in Italy

7. The Bay of Baiae - Apollo and the Sibyl

8. Cavalry Crossing the Piave

9. A Regatta on the Grand

10. "Curtius Leaping into the Gulph"

11. The Ruins of Nervesa

12. Nursemaids on the Piazza, Venice

13. Via dei Girolami, Florence

14. Villa d'Este: Evening

15. The Lonely Tower, Roman Campagna

16. Title page of Piante e Alzate di Diverse Fabbriche

17. Juliet House

18. Study of Pines, Villa Borghese, Rome, 1871

19. Castle of Ischia

20. In the Strada Nomentana

21. In the Villa Adriana

22. Bridge of Augustus at Rimini

23. La facciata d'una Casa per fare alla Campagna

24. Alzata della faciata d'una Casa per fare alla Villa

25. Facciata duna Casa per fare alla Campagna

26. Il diritto della Facciata d'una Casa per fare alla Campagna

27. Alzata di'una faciata d'un Palazzo di 15 finestre per fare in luogo nobile della citta

28. Alzata della Facciata d'una Chiesa

29. Rough Elevation of a Domed Church

30. Temple of Romulus and Remus

31. Villa of Mæcenus at Tivoli

32. La Prigioni a Venezia

33. Upper half of a plan

34. Arco nel Campo Marzo a Vicenza

35. Alzata d'una Porta congli Prigioni della Citta

36. Alzata d'una Facciata di Chesa con il campanile a l'uro Veneto

37. Temple of Peace

38. Circus of Caracalla

39. Baths of Dioclesian

40. Banks of the Tiber

41. Torre Delle Grotte near Naples

42. Pompey's Bridge at Terni

43. Journal and notebook kept during a tour through France and Italy in 1773.

44. Illustrated excursions in Italy / by Edward Lear.

45. Grand Tour diary of an Irish woman.

46. Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy : states of Sardinia, Lombardy and Venice, Parma and Piacenza, Modena, Lucca, Massa-Carrara, and Tuscany, as far as the Val d'Arno.

47. Album.

48. The story of the Venetian villas [filmstrip] / Compiled, annotated and photographed by Richard Shirley Smith.

49. Piante elevazioni profili e spaccati degli edifici della villa suburbana di Giulio III : Pontefico Massimo fuori la Porta Flaminia / misurati e delineati da Giovanni Stern, architetto romano.

50. Lido / etchings Tom Hammick ; poems Maureen Duffy.

51. Diary of my tour in Italy in October 1892 / J.S. Maber.

52. Sketchbooks of tours in Italy / 1792, July 21-1793, April 12.

53. The mountains and the lakes : sketches in Switzerland, the Tyrol and Italy / by George E. Hering.

54. A picturesque tour of Italy : from drawings made in 1816-1817 / by James Hakewill, archt.

55. Drawings of French, Italian, and English churches.

56. Essays towards the history of painting / by Mrs. Callcott.

57. Ten mezzo-tinto engravings : from original drawings ... / by Her Majesty's dutiful, grateful & affectionate servant, Carolina Courtenay Boyle ; engraved by Louis Marvy.

58. Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.

59. Extracts from a journal of a pilgrimage in search of the curious and beautiful in Italy, Sicily, and Greece during the years 1845-46.

60. The prettiest love letters in the world : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo 1503 to 1519 / translation and preface Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings Richard Shirley Smith.

61. Wyld's military map of the theatre of war.

62. Grand tour diary of Miss Forbes.

63. Li giardini di Roma / disegnate da Giovanni Battista Falda.

65. [Book of ruins].

66. Contemporary Venetian artists : an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, drawings and mosaics : 30 May-30 June, 1956.

67. Incipit ordo missalis s[ecundu]m co[n]suetudinem Romane curie. D[omi]nica prima de aduentu ...

68. Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti perugini / scritta, e dedicate alla maesta di Carlo Emanuel re di Sardegna da Lione Pascoli.

69. Specimens of architecture, Grecian & Gothic.

70. Travelling memorandum book, 1827.

71. North & central Italy and the island of Corsica / [cartographic material] / by Keith Johnston.

72. Solenne processione vaticana del Corpus Domini : diretta da uno de' cerimonieri di Sua Santità Gregorio XVI ...

73. Handbook for travellers in northern Italy : states of Sardinia, Lombardy and Venice, Parma and Piacenza, Modena, Lucca, Massa-Carrara, and Tuscany as far as the Val d'Arno : with travelling map and plans.

74. Diary of Cecil John Shepherd on a tour in France and Italy.