Date: 1759 / Period: 18th century - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. The Fishery

Creator:: Richard Wright, ca. 1720–ca. 1775
Date:: ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 53 inches (90.2 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Corfe Castle, Dorset

Creator:: John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/8 x 18 inches (33.3 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Tobias Smollet

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811
Date:: ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 49 3/4 x 40 inches (126.4 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Warwick Castle

Creator:: Francis Harding, active 1730–1766
Date:: ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 5/8 x 39 inches (62.5 x 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. The Ballad Singer

Creator:: Henry Robert Morland, 1730–1797
Date:: ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811
Date:: between 1759 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (72.4 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Royal Sport, Pit Ticket

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 15 1/4in. (32.1 x 38.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Melville & Naomi Stone

8. Pit Ticket

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mr. Arthur F. Tuttle

9. The Cockpit

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 15in. (31.8 x 38.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Highway Robbery

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, and black ink on medium, sightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 9 5/8 inches (20.6 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. London Cries: Fun upon Fun

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches (18.1 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. A Prospect of Vapourland

Creator:: Richard Bentley, 1708–1782
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Brown and black ink and wash over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 x 24 7/8 inches (47 x 63.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: between 1759 and 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 14 15/16 inches (53.1 × 37.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Admiral Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 × 13 15/16 inches (50.3 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Elizabeth Countess of Northumberland, Baroness Percy, Lucy, Poynings, Fitzpain, Bryan, and Latimer

Creator:: Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: between 1759 and 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/16 × 15 1/16 inches (53.5 × 38.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Costume Study

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (19.1 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Drummond

18. Costume Study

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (19.1 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Drummond

19. Costume Study

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (19.1 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Drummond

20. Miss Kitty Fisher

Creator:: Richard Purcell, active 1746–1766
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 10 1/16 inches (35.7 × 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A View from Lord Suffok's Bedchamber Window At Elford Down into the Stable Court, 1759

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 13/16 × 18 1/8 inches (40.2 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Representation of the Glarious Defeat of the French Fleet off Belleisle on the 20 November 1759

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. A View of the Rotunda House and Gardens at Ranelagh with an exact representation of the Jubilee Ball as it appeared May 24th, 1759

Creator:: Nathaniel Parr, active 1742–1751
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Miss Kitty Fisher

Creator:: Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 × 9 15/16 inches (34.8 × 25.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Nottingham Castle

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 14 3/8 inches (14 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Westminster Abbey and Bridge from Somerset Garden

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches (20 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. A London Potboy

Creator:: Louis Philippe Boitard, active 1734–1760
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted to medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 6 3/8 inches (23.8 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Sheet of Studies of Oriental Figures

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 7 3/8 inches (29.5 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Honorable Augustus Keppel

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 19 3/4in. (36.2 x 50.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth

30. A View of Esher in Surrey the Seat of the Rt. Hon. Henry Pelham Esq.

Creator:: Luke Sullivan, 1705–1771
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Plate: 14 3/8 x 20 1/2in. (36.5 x 52.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. A View of Wilton in Wiltshire the Seta of the Rt. Hon. Earl of Pembrooke

Creator:: Luke Sullivan, 1705–1771
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Plate: 14 3/8 x 20 3/8in. (36.5 x 51.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Man Leading Tow Mules Supporting a Chair, Large Tree in Foreground

Creator:: Louisa Augusta Greville, 1743–active 1762
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Etching in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.4 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Lord Camden

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. A View of Wilton, in Wiltshire

Creator:: Luke Sullivan, 1705–1771
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 20 1/2in. (36.8 x 52.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The American Locust &c.

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1759-1765
Materials & Techniques:: Colored engraving on laid paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 4 1/2 x 7 1/2in. (11.4 x 19.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

36. A View of the Palace from the South side of the Lake with the Temples of Bellona and AEolus and the House of Confucius in the Royal Gardens at Kew

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving
Dimensions:: Plate: 14 5/8 x 21 1/8in. (37.1 x 53.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Louers in a Glade

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 x 10 3/8in. (32.9 x 26.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Pastoral Scene with Figures in a Box-chair Carried by Horses

Creator:: Print made by Louisa Augusta Greville, 1743–active 1762
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/8 x 11 7/8in. (41.6 x 30.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. A Running Postillion

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 1/8 inches (24.1 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. At La Posta

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 1/4 inches (24.1 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Portrait of Admiral Sir Charles Hardy, after 1759

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: between 1759 and 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 × 10 5/8 inches (37.1 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan

42. Catharine Macaulay

Creator:: Print made by Jonathan Spilsbury, active 1765–1780
Date:: ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 x 9 7/8in. (35.2 x 25.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Mrs. Macaulay

Creator:: Print made by Jonathan Spilsbury, active 1765–1780
Date:: ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/4 × 16 inches (55.2 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Caroline Spencer, Duchess of Marlborough

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: 1759-1762
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 9 15/16 inches (35.6 × 25.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Scenographia Americana: A View of the Fall of Montmorenci and the Attack made by General Wolfe, on the French Intrenchments near Beauport, with the Grenadiers of the Army, July 31 1759

Creator:: William Elliot, active 1774, died 1792
Date:: 1759-1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Scenographia Americana: A North View of Port Royal in the Island of Guadaloupe, when in Possession of his Majesty's Forces in 1759

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. A View of Cliefden in Buckingham, the seat of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Inchiquin

Creator:: Luke Sullivan, 1705–1771
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving tinted with watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 20in. (33.7 x 50.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Ditchley in Oxfordshire

Creator:: Luke Sullivan, 1705–1771
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Colored engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 27 3/4in. (37.5 x 70.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Ships of the Secret Expedition against the Havannah

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet:
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery Collection

50. Gothic architecture decorated : consisting of a large collection of temples, banqueting, summer and green houses, gazebo's, alcoves; faced garden and umbrello'd seats, terminari's, and rustic garden seats, rout houses, and hermitages for summer and winter, obelisks, pyramids, &c. Many of which may be executed with pollards, rude branches and roots of trees. Being a taste entirely new. Likewise designs of the Gothic orders, with their proper ornaments, and rules for drawing them / the whole engraved on twelve copper plates designed by P. Decker.

Gothic architecture decorated : consisting of a large collection of temples, banqueting, summer and green houses, gazebo's, alcoves; faced garden and umbrello'd seats, terminari's, and rustic garden seats, rout houses, and hermitages for summer and winter, obelisks, pyramids, &c. Many of which may be executed with pollards, rude branches and roots of trees. Being a taste entirely new. Likewise designs of the Gothic orders, with their proper ornaments, and rules for drawing them / the whole engraved on twelve copper plates designed by P. Decker.

Creator:: Decker, Paul
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 2 pts. in 1 v. ([1],12, [1], 12 leaves) : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. 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

52. A natural and civil history of California : containing an accurate description of that country, its soil, mountains, harbours, lakes, rivers, and seas : its animals, vegetables, minerals, and famous fishery for pearls : the customs of the inhabitants, their religion, government and manner of living, before their conversion to the Christian religion by the missionary Jesuits : together with accounts of the several voyages and attempts made for settling California and taking actual surveys of that country, its gulf, and coast of the south sea : illustrated with copper plates, and an accurate map of the country and the adjacent seas / translated from the original Spanish of Miguel Venegas, a Mexican Jesuit, published at Madrid 1758.

Creator:: Venegas, Miguel, 1680–1764
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, map ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Designs in carpentry : containing domes, trussed roofs, flooring, trussing of beams, angle-brackets, and cornices / by Abraham Swan.

Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: [1], 8, [55] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Designs, and estimates, of farm houses, &c. for the county of York, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Bishoprick of Durham / by Daniel Garret.

Creator:: Garret, Daniel, -1753
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [4], 11, [1] p., [8] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. The history of Scotland : during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI, till his accession to the Crown of England, with a review of the Scottish history previous to that period and an appendix containing original papers / by William Robertson.

Creator:: Robertson, William, 1721–1793
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Conjectures on original composition. In a letter to the author of Sir Charles Grandison.

Creator:: Young, Edward, 1683–1765
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: [4], 112 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The Prince of Abissinia : a tale in two volumes.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. A description of the works of the ingenious delineator and engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, disposed into classes of different sorts; with some account of his life. By George Vertue ...

Creator:: Vertue, George, 1684–1756
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: vi p., 1 l., 151, [1] p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. The art of painting in oil ...

Creator:: Smith, John, 1647 or 1648–1727?
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 4 p.., 110 p. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. A poetical description of Mr. Hogarth's election prints: in four cantos. Written under Mr. Hogarth's sanction and inspection ...

Creator:: Smith, John, fl. 1759
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 30 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Chinese architecture, civil and ornamental : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of plans and elevations, &c. from the imperial retreat to the smallest ornamental building in China : likewise their marine subjects : the whole to adorn gardens, parks, forests, woods, canals, &c. consisting of great variety, among which are the following, viz. royal garden seats, heads and terminations for canals, alcoves, banqueting houses, temples both open and close, adapted for canals and others ways, bridges, summer-houses, repositories, umbrello'd seats, cool retreats, the summer dwelling of a chief bonza or priest, honorary pagodas, Japaneze [sic] and imperial barges of China : also, those for the emperor's women, and principal officers attending on the emperor, pleasure boats, &c. : to which are added, Chinese flowers, landscapes, figures, ornaments, &c. : the whole neatly engraved on twenty-four copper-plates, from real designs drawn in China, adapted to this climate / by P. Decker, architect.

Creator:: Decker, Paul
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Proportional architecture, or, The five orders : regulated by equal parts : after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity : to which is added a practical and familiar explanation of the terms herein used.

Creator:: Robinson, William, approximately 1744–
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: [32] leaves, 33-47 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Catalogue of the prints in Mr Rapins Hist. of England, and Mr Tindals Continuation : with the ornaments &c. explained.

Creator:: Wren, Stephen
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([2], 960, 54 p.) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Royal magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly companion.

Date:: [1759-1771]
Physical Description:: 21 v. fronts., illus., plates (part fold., part col.) ports., maps. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Accurate vorstellung der samtlichen koeniglich preussischen armee : worinnen zur eigentlichen Kenntniss der Uniform von jedem Regimente ein Officier und Gemeiner in Völliger Montirung und ganzer Statur nach dem Leben abgebildet sind Nebst beygefügter Nachricht 1.) von der Stiftung. 2.) denen Chefs. 3.) der Staerke und 4.) der in Friedenszeiten habenden Gvarnisons iedes Regiments / herausgegeben und gezeichnet von I.C.H. v. S.

Creator:: Schmalen, Johann Christ. Hermann von
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: [121], [2] leaves : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. A catalogue of the late Sir Everard Fawkener's pictures, antique bronzes, large marble group of a lion devouring a horse, two curious Egyptian mummies of a woman and a child : several large portraits, of English gentlemen, by Liotard, in frames and glasses : and a collection of other valuable pictures, vases, and basso relievos, a curious table inlaid with brass, a large book-case, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Ford, at his Great Room in St. James's Haymarket, on Tuesday the 27th of this instant March 1759.

Creator:: Ford, James (Auctioneer)
Date:: [1759]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Description historique-géographique des isles Britanniques ou des royaumes d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande / par M. l'Abbé Expilly, de la Société Royale des Sciences & Belles-Lettres de Nancy ; avec des cartes géographiques.

Creator:: Expilly, M. l'abbé (Jean-Joseph), 1719–1793
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [4], xvi, 464 pages, [4] folded leaves of plates : maps, 17 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The County of Cambridge [cartographic material] : containing the city & county town, with the market towns, rivers, roads, & distances / by Eman. Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty.

Creator:: Bowen, Emanuel, -1767
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 17.8 x 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

69. The school of Raphael, or, The student's guide to expression in historical painting : illustrated by examples engraved by Duchange and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own drawings after the most celebrated heads in the cartons at Hampton-Court : to which are now added, the outline of each head, and also several plates of the most celebrated antique statues, engraved by an eminent artist : with instructions for young students in the art of designing, and the passions, as characterised by Raphael in the cartons / described and explained by Benjamin Ralph.

Creator:: Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763–1770
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [2], 13, [2], 14-24 pages, XI, [1], 45 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [vi], iv, 85, [1] pages, [50] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

Creator:: Heckel, Augustin, approximately 1690–1770
Date:: [1759]
Physical Description:: [1], 5 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. [Sir Joshua Reynolds' sitter-book]

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: 1757-
Physical Description:: v. : ill. ; 18 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. The Fishery

2. Corfe Castle, Dorset

3. Tobias Smollet

4. Warwick Castle

5. The Ballad Singer

6. Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti

7. Royal Sport, Pit Ticket

8. Pit Ticket

9. The Cockpit

10. The Highway Robbery

11. London Cries: Fun upon Fun

12. A Prospect of Vapourland

13. Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland

14. Admiral Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel

15. Elizabeth Countess of Northumberland, Baroness Percy, Lucy, Poynings, Fitzpain, Bryan, and Latimer

16. Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland

17. Costume Study

18. Costume Study

19. Costume Study

20. Miss Kitty Fisher

21. A View from Lord Suffok's Bedchamber Window At Elford Down into the Stable Court, 1759

22. Representation of the Glarious Defeat of the French Fleet off Belleisle on the 20 November 1759

23. A View of the Rotunda House and Gardens at Ranelagh with an exact representation of the Jubilee Ball as it appeared May 24th, 1759

24. Miss Kitty Fisher

25. Nottingham Castle

26. Westminster Abbey and Bridge from Somerset Garden

27. A London Potboy

28. Sheet of Studies of Oriental Figures

29. The Honorable Augustus Keppel

30. A View of Esher in Surrey the Seat of the Rt. Hon. Henry Pelham Esq.

31. A View of Wilton in Wiltshire the Seta of the Rt. Hon. Earl of Pembrooke

32. Man Leading Tow Mules Supporting a Chair, Large Tree in Foreground

33. Lord Camden

34. A View of Wilton, in Wiltshire

35. The American Locust &c.

36. A View of the Palace from the South side of the Lake with the Temples of Bellona and AEolus and the House of Confucius in the Royal Gardens at Kew

37. Louers in a Glade

38. Pastoral Scene with Figures in a Box-chair Carried by Horses

39. A Running Postillion

40. At La Posta

41. Portrait of Admiral Sir Charles Hardy, after 1759

42. Catharine Macaulay

43. Mrs. Macaulay

44. Caroline Spencer, Duchess of Marlborough

45. Scenographia Americana: A View of the Fall of Montmorenci and the Attack made by General Wolfe, on the French Intrenchments near Beauport, with the Grenadiers of the Army, July 31 1759

46. Scenographia Americana: A North View of Port Royal in the Island of Guadaloupe, when in Possession of his Majesty's Forces in 1759

47. A View of Cliefden in Buckingham, the seat of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Inchiquin

48. Ditchley in Oxfordshire

49. Ships of the Secret Expedition against the Havannah

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

53. Designs in carpentry : containing domes, trussed roofs, flooring, trussing of beams, angle-brackets, and cornices / by Abraham Swan.

54. Designs, and estimates, of farm houses, &c. for the county of York, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Bishoprick of Durham / by Daniel Garret.

55. The history of Scotland : during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI, till his accession to the Crown of England, with a review of the Scottish history previous to that period and an appendix containing original papers / by William Robertson.

56. Conjectures on original composition. In a letter to the author of Sir Charles Grandison.

57. The Prince of Abissinia : a tale in two volumes.

58. A description of the works of the ingenious delineator and engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, disposed into classes of different sorts; with some account of his life. By George Vertue ...

59. The art of painting in oil ...

60. A poetical description of Mr. Hogarth's election prints: in four cantos. Written under Mr. Hogarth's sanction and inspection ...

62. Proportional architecture, or, The five orders : regulated by equal parts : after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity : to which is added a practical and familiar explanation of the terms herein used.

63. Catalogue of the prints in Mr Rapins Hist. of England, and Mr Tindals Continuation : with the ornaments &c. explained.

64. Royal magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly companion.

67. Description historique-géographique des isles Britanniques ou des royaumes d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande / par M. l'Abbé Expilly, de la Société Royale des Sciences & Belles-Lettres de Nancy ; avec des cartes géographiques.

68. The County of Cambridge [cartographic material] : containing the city & county town, with the market towns, rivers, roads, & distances / by Eman. Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty.

70. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

71. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

72. [Sir Joshua Reynolds' sitter-book]